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Oh. So, we're outraged about this...but when he's already labeling "leftists" as literal terrorists, we haven't quite found our outrage yet?
We can be outraged about more than one thing.
What is your basis for saying no one is outraged about this administration targeting leftists? I've seen nothing but outrage.
A third of the U.S. thinks that anyone to the left of the most conservative Democrat is a communist, while many centrists normalize fascism on a regular basis.
Source for those stats?
Polls have repeatedly demonstrated that around a third of Americans support Trump's policy positions on nearly everything; here's a graph with multiple issues listed to demonstrate (source):
Your statement isn't about support. You made blanket statements about who thinks what about communism and fascism.
Your brother
The fact that he is allowed to continue to do it.
Except you changing it to "no one" is a strawman, that was not the claim. The claim was "we" which I suppose is meant as the American population preferably a majority of the population.
Why are you acting like an apologist for normalizing the increasing psychopathy of the American society?
Sure, I should've stuck to a strict definition of the poorly defined thing that you "suppose" means something that wasn't at all indicated in the comment. Makes sense.
The comment made two claims:
I said:
Using "we" or "no one" is immaterial in that sentence in this context. It's not more than just not repeating the same words again and again for readability. No sensible person took that to be an ask for evidence that literally not one single person was outraged. The crux of the question, as written above, is "What evidence supports your claim?" Using your assumed definition, I'd have the same question about both claims instead of just one. My main point that we can be outraged about more than one thing would be unchanged.
I'm not. You're just failing to think clearly.
Guess what, he will continue to be allowed to do more outrageous things after this one too. Society STILL isn't sufficiently outraged to stop this. Maybe what will finally end this will be something stupid like he outlawed pizza pockets
I’ve seen a lot of whining and complaining online, and a lot of people desperate to signal that they’re the “good Americans.”
If you were outraged you’d be doing something about it. You’re MUCH too comfortable to be outraged.
Who me?
Yes, you.
You sound tough, Captain Discomfort. What you bench bro?
Also, I'm Canadian. Not particularly interested in being a good American. Or any kind, really.
As am I. Why are you giving them a pass on their inaction?
I have no idea what they're individually doing or not doing.
But in the interest of national unity, I'll join you in the most Canadian of pastimes: talking shit about Americans.
Fuck you, you American bastards! Fix your dumb country, you fucking hosers.
And your plan of action is?
To watch MAGA give your country what it clearly deserves and hope that it’s awful enough to be a cautionary example for the rest of us.
Why do you want him to hurt Canada? What did we do?
So you’re a Canadian, asking me, another Canadian, what MY plan of action is to, what, step in and do what Americans are too cowardly to do?
What are you even doing here aside from giving cover to subhuman trash?
I'm asking you because you're the one who keeps demanding people do something and demeaning everyone you interact with for not doing something, without even asking if they're American. What are YOU doing about it?
Up until now, it was pretty easy to tell who was American- they were the ones being shitty and belligerent and defensive. Congratulations on being indistinguishable from the clowns.
Unfortunately that's been happening since before most who are going to read this message were even born. Ask the weathermen or the Black Panther Party for self-defense.
Who’s the weatherman?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
Thanks!
The Weathermen were, objectively speaking, terrorists. Their praxis was to scare the politicians into stopping the various imperialist wars.
Noble goals (and that bathroom in the Pentagon had it coming) but they were terrorists.
True and if we're being thorough even Fox News is a form of or feeding terrorism. But I think it would be important to compare and contrast with events such as the move bombing in 1985. Whether or not you were 100% on board with MOVE's praxis. What the police did was a terrorist attack that destroyed the community in many ways. Not just MOVE. But they can't be terrorist, they're police. Tulsa race massacre, ditto. If you really want to get base level, the state itself is terrorist. If you question it's authority how will it answer.
It's a term so misused as we are seeing now. It's just treated as "enemy" anymore. People need to get used to it, and understand those in power are their enemy. That they should be afraid. That terrorism itself isn't bad inherently. It's all about who's targeted and why. A culpable organization like the Pentagon and the MIC. Or unconnected random, perhaps even ally families and individuals.
I've been in a constant state of outrage since before he was elected. Everything going on is an outrage. Numerous outrageous things are happening, any one of which should have alone been enough to end this administration. Yet here we are. Outrage is just the norm now.